Category Archives: Business

Know what you’re selling

I recently had a non IT related business experience that was a good lesson to learn and really opened my eyes to potential issues with developing and selling software (or services). It is important to know exactly what you are selling, what the client is buying and the exact payment terms. This may sound like [...]

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Building a business: A Techie’s View Part I

Building a business is hard. Don’t let anyone tell you different. I know this because I’ve been trying for years to have a business and I’ve been doing everything wrong. I know that I’m doing everything wrong because it has not been successful at all. I have not given up though and will continue to [...]

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Wants and needs

I was approached by one of the managers at my job about a change to one of the data entry forms on our system. The requirement came up because of an incorrect value being entered into the system. So the suggestion was to do something that would prevent people from having to re-enter all the [...]

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My Development Future with ColdFusion

I absolutely love Adobe ColdFusion. I have been using it since version 3 and fell head over heals the first day I saw how easy it was to create a search directory, or send an email, or just about anything the average web application developer could want back in those days. It has matured tremendously [...]

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